Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, renowned for having lived the doctrines of trancendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849). Thoreau attended Harvard University and was good friends with Ralph Emerson during his life.
I chose "Light-Winged Smoke Icarian Bird" because I had never seen poetry like it before. It sort of synyster and even evil in a way think. Like the line "melting thy pinions in thy upward flight" seems pretty evil. It could also have sort of a big brother is always watching theme to it. There are many ways to interpret Thoreaus work and that why I like him as a writer.
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